iD magazine

Is it possible for time to be frozen?

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Essentiall­y, yes. Scientists at Quebec’s National Institute of Scientific Research have developed T-CUP, the world’s fastest camera, which can capture 10 trillion frames per second. T-CUP makes it possible to “freeze” time to observe phenomena—even light—in extremely slow motion. The first time it was used the camera captured the temporal focusing of a single femtosecon­d laser pulse—in real time—and revealed its characteri­stics. (A femtosecon­d is one-quadrillio­nth of a second.) Thanks to this imaging speed, T-CUP is able to power the next generation of microscope­s for many scientific applicatio­ns, including analysis of interactio­ns between light and matter.

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